M3

The fully open source metrics platform built on M3DB, a distributed timeseries database

Why M3?

M3, a metrics platform, and M3DB, a distributed time series database, were developed at Uber out
of necessity. After using what was available as open source and finding we were unable to use them
at our scale due to issues with their reliability, cost and operationally intensive nature
we built our own metrics platform piece by piece. We used our experience to help us build a native
distributed time series database, a highly dynamic and performant aggregation service, query engine
and other supporting infrastructure.

Cluster Management

Out of the box support for handling multiple clusters, built on top of etcd